The star of James Wan’s new supernatural thriller The Conjuring talks with Spinoff Online about the long and winding career path that took him from Angels in America to playing a real-life demonologist.

In a new production video for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Peter Jackson says that because of the shooting schedule, he’ll be unable to screen footage from the film later this month at Comic-Con International.

New Line Cinema has hired Dan Trachtenberg, a commercials director who gained attention for his live-action fan short based on the video game Portal, to helm the recently revived adaptation of Y: The Last Man.

With The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson crafts a spellbinding introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth that makes full use of its talented ensemble cast. However, the director fumbles with his embrace of the 48-frames-per-second format.

Although the opening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is still a week away, New Line is already teasing the next installments of Peter Jackson’s trilogy with the first images from The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again.